User Guide

• Introduction
  • Referencing ASPECT
  • Acknowledgments
• Modeling assumptions and numerical methods
  • Basic equations
  • Coefficients
  • Dimensional or non-dimensionalized equations?
  • Static or dynamic pressure?
  • Pressure normalization
  • Initial conditions and the adiabatic pressure/temperature
  • Compositional fields
  • Constitutive laws
  • Numerical methods
  • Approximate equations
  • Choosing a formulation
  • Advection Stabilization
  • Free surface calculations
  • Calculations with melt transport
  • Calculations with Darcy flow
  • Nullspace removal
  • Particles
  • Geometric Multigrid
  • Choosing a nonlinear Stokes solver
• Installation
  • Docker Container
  • Virtual Machine
  • Local installation
• Running ASPECT
  • First steps
  • Overview
  • Selecting between 2d and 3d
  • Debug or optimized mode
  • Visualizing results
  • Checkpoint/restart support
  • Making ASPECT run faster
  • Input parameter files
  • A graphical user interface
• Cookbooks
  • How to set up computations
  • Simple setups
  • Geophysical setups
  • Setups for teaching
• Benchmarks
  • Running benchmarks that require code
  • Onset of convection benchmark
  • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
  • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
  • The Bunge et al. mantle convection experiments
  • The Blankenbach convection benchmark
  • The King compressible convection benchmark
  • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
  • Polydiapirism
  • The sinking block benchmark
  • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
  • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
  • The “inclusion” Stokes benchmark
  • The Burstedde variable viscosity benchmark
  • The slab detachment benchmark
  • The hollow sphere benchmark
  • The 2D annulus benchmark
  • The rigid shear benchmark
  • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
  • Viscosity grooves benchmark
  • Latent heat benchmark
  • The 2D cylindrical shell benchmarks by Davies et al.
  • The Crameri et al. benchmarks
  • The solitary wave benchmark
  • 1D test for water solubility
  • Benchmarks for operator splitting
  • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
  • Layered flow with viscosity contrast
  • Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
  • Advection stabilization benchmarks
  • Yamauchi & Takei anelastic shear wave velocity-temperature conversion benchmark
  • Thin shell gravity benchmark
  • Thick shell gravity benchmark
  • 2D Lithosphere flexure benchmark with infill
  • Gravity field generated by mantle density variations
  • Brittle thrust wedges benchmark
  • Compressibility formulation benchmarks
  • Entropy adiabat benchmark
  • Geoid Spectral Comparison
  • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
  • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Spiegelman et at. (2016)
  • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
  • The NSinker benchmark
  • The Spherical Shell NSinker benchmark
  • Time dependent annulus benchmark
  • The viscoelastic plastic shear bands benchmarks
  • Grain Size Pinned State
• Extending and contributing to ASPECT
  • The idea of plugins and the SimulatorAccess and Introspection classes
  • How to write a plugin
  • How to write a cookbook
  • Available plugin types
  • Compatibility of plugins
  • Extending ASPECT through signals
  • Extending the basic solver
  • Testing ASPECT
  • Contributing to ASPECT
  • Future plans for ASPECT
  • Release Tasklist
• Finding answers to more questions